By New York Post (Politics) | Created at 2025-01-23 03:31:27 | Updated at 2025-01-23 07:10:02
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President Trump ripped California Gov. Gavin Newsom Wednesday for mismanaging his state’s water supply and forests, resulting in one of the most destructive wildfires in Golden State history.
“I took criticism because I said, ‘You have to manage your forest,’” Trump recalled chastising Newsom years before the devastation to Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “That’s like a nuclear weapon went off. What’s happened to Los Angeles?”
“This fire was just raging, and then it would catch to another area, another area, another area,” he went on. “It took a week and a half — and I’ve never seen anything like it. We look so weak.
“Why is that you don’t want millions of gallons of water a day pouring throughout California?” he added. “Millions of gallons of water is diverted, way up north in California into the Pacific Ocean.”
Trump, 78, also told Hannity he was hoping to link future federal aid funding to California “on them practicing the science of forestry,” noting that he’d learned a thing or two from world leaders on the subject during his first term.
“A number of them actually: Finland told me this, Austria told me this,” he recounted. “And it was beautiful the way they expressed it. They said, ‘We live in a forest. We are a forest nation.’ That’s beautiful.’”
“Far more beautiful than what they have in California, and much more flammable,” he pointed out.
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